Dress-waist form



UNi'I ED" STATES PATENT] OF ICE.-

HAROLD A. BROWN, or LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

oases-WAIST FORM.

SPECIFIGATIGNfc'rmin'g1am;of Letters Patent No. 478,308, dated July 5,-1892. p,

Application filed September 25, 1891. Serial No. 406,836- (No model.) I

To all whom it mag concern I Be it known that I, HAROLD A. BROWN, a

citizen of the United Statcs,residing at Lawrence, in the county of Douglas and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Model-Form, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to forms suchas are used for making and fitting dress-waists and other garments; and, the object of the same is to etfect certain improvements in devices of this character. l

To this end the invention consists in a form of the specific construction hereinafter 101%) fully described and claimed, and as illu'sjzi ated on the accompanying sheet" of drawings, whereim- Figure 1 is a standard. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section through the form, showingon'e manner of connecting it with the standard.

Referring to the said drawings, the letter B designates a base, which may be a small tripod, as shown. S is a standard rising therefrom, and F is the form, which is mounted on the standard. The said form is composed of a plurality of pieces cut to a pattern and in such manner that when they are united at their edges they make a perfect form on which a dress-waist or other garment can'be fitted. The pieces are of tin or other sheet metal, solid or perforated, of woven-wire orreticulatedfab rie, or of papier-mach, pasteboard, oil-cloth, linoleum, leather, india-rubber, felt, or composition, and even sometimes of cloth; or they 4 may be of any suitable combination of any of .these materials, the particular material used being not vital, except that it should have some degree of stiffness in order that the form will maintain its propel-lines and curves under the strain to whichitissubjectech The meeting edges of the pieces are connected by riveting, lacing, stitching, gluing, or otherwise, and' the whole when completed forms a rigid form of the shape and size desired and as shown in the drawings. .1 preferably continue this form for some distance below the waist-line, as see'n,in order that thehip measurement may be taken, and by this means general perspective view t ,'l th1s unprevod-form "supported by a base and the same form answers for fitting a dressskirt, since the folds of the skirt below the line indicated merely hang from the hips and are never tightly fitted; I have illustrated in Fig. 2 the improved means which Ieni'ploy for supporting this form. A collar Cis ad justable by means of a set-screw Q therethrough at any desired heighten the standard S, and from this collar a number of divergent rods R co nnect with the form F around its open lower end. Hence when the collar is" raised and lowered the height of the form from the floor is adj usted'. Within the form at some suitable pointas at the waist-line, as shown-is a transverse bar or rod, or it may be a plate, completely filling the form at this point. i This plate is lettered P in the -dtanmestanmhaaa hole a through its can ter, which slides" on the standard S whenever. the form is adjusted. A form of this charace 7o ter is veryeasily manufactured atalow cost. In fact it is so cheap that a dressmaker can have a number of such forms varying in size and shape and can mount on the standard the one desired for use. If the person for 7 5 whom the dress is intended should possess a figure slightly larger in some respects than the form so mounted for fitting, it would be an easy matter for. a'dressmaker to tack onto the form strips of fabric or even wads or padding to fill out the curves at the points vnecessary and such padding could be removed after the formhad been used.- When the described support is used, thevarions formsarc provided with perforations,

books, or eyes I near their lower ends, and the upper ends of the rods R are hooked, as

at U, as shown; By this means the single collar and its rods may be used withany form, a and thus I save the expense incidental to a collar and rods for each form. The rods are of course pivoted at their inner ends to the collar, and other means than that, described may be employed for detachably connecting their outer ends with the form.

What is claimed as new is The combination, with an upright standard, a collar 0 thereon, a set-screw Q through said collar, and rods R, pivoted to and rising from the collar and having hooked outer ends, too

of a hollow rigid form having an open lower In testimony that I claim the fioregoing as end. provided with perforations or eyes and a my own I have hereto affixed my signature in plate P Within the form at the Waist-line, havthe presence of two witnesses.

, ing a hole through which the standard moves, HAROLD A. BROWN.

the collar and its adj llSlllDg-IOdS being wholly VVitn esses: below the lower end of the form, as and. for the WILLIS BROWN,

purpose hereinbefore set forth. M. W. BROWN. 

